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This project has been bothering me for (what feels like) months and I am glad to see there was an official response by the linguistics department of UW. How'd y

• DenisM 10y ago
  >How'd you find it? My girlfriend works there, we discussed it at length. >Why did you think it's unfortunate? Primarily because they botched it. I wish it was well-enough written so that I could use to convince the people who actually need serious convincing (unlike the PR office or the two kids). Alas it's far too inflammatory, and on so many levels. It's also mushed together in a way that thinking back I can't separate one argument from another. If they separated politics from the technical aspects at least I could use the latter part, but as it is, it's pretty much hopeless. So now if I am to convince anyone either in the need for scientific rigor or in the need to pay attention to the plights of the Deaf I am entirely on my own, using my own clumsy word. This is not how enlightenment is supposed to work. The most educated and knowledgeable, those with the most authority, those who can write well, or should be able to, they should be providing ideological ammunition to those who are willing to spread the message. Instead they ended up publicly flogging the PR office, which might have been misguided but is fundamentally on "our" side, in a fit of anger. A squandered opportunity.